To quote Panic! At The Disco, we have "High Hopes" about the weather this week
High pressure is sticking around into the weekend and will keep many areas dry with plenty of sunshine
Although increasingly warm by day, the nights will still be chilly with potential for fog
I often think about the day I first noticed my youngest’s attempt at reparation, when he ripped a piece of his sister’s art off the wall.
I wrote this straight after, and it seems appropriate to share today as much as any day. 🥺
Resilient, the other is avoiding reality. And when we aren’t curious about the meaning behind the pastime, and the benefits and drawbacks a patient experiences, we risk missing so much as we are clouded by our own biases and experiences.
if a patient says they game, (which they’re unlikely to even mention due to stigma and shame), but even if their gaming is perfectly healthy, it may be assumed to be a problem. One is ‘getting out there!’ while the other is ‘isolating themselves’ (lol, running, the famously solitary hobby). One is..
So the tl;dr of this bit is that we all have anchoring bias so if a GP first hears that a patient is a runner, all their future responses will be rose-tinted. Even if they use running as an unhealthy coping mechanism or are self harming through it, it will be thought of as a more positive thing than
So nervous I can’t spell psychologists, apparently 🤦♀️
My graphic design skills know no bounds.
So, so, nervous about presenting to so many actual doctors and pdychologists 😬
It was a cheap day out but now I’ve just ordered an £800 TV for no real reason so maybe next time I’ll do soft play 😅
It’s my son’s birthday today so I’ll give everyone another money saving tip: Curry’s is a magical smorgasbord of entertainment for a toddler. And 100% free! 😅
Argh I’m sorry (and it sounds amazing, well done for doing it all!) - and please tell us more about the programme you delivered 👀💜
Belatedly celebrating the Hungarian election result with lángos (Hungarian deep fried bread with sour cream, garlic and cheese) and pezsgő (Hungarian sparkling wine) 🥂 🇭🇺
Also - Magyar in Hungarian means ‘Hungarian’ so it’s jarring to see it being used as a name by English people suddenly. I’ll get used to it 😅 it’s closest English pronunciation is ‘mud-jar’ btw.
Relatedly, ‘to explain’ in Hungarian is ‘magyaráz’ which literally means to turn it into Hungarian 🇭🇺
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
‘Talpra magyar, hí a haza!’
Orbán out 🥰
After sixteen long years of learning and speaking it, finally I can tell people I speak Hungarian again without worrying people think I’m alt right 🇭🇺
Having infants x working with infantile states
Drudgery, a sense of ‘will this ever end?’, relentless emotional toll.
But also - the sense of wonderment of the beauty of it all. The absolute privilege that you get to bear witness to their development.
throwing a poke ball at them. Easy.
Toddler birthday requests:
Party location in order of preference: in CEX, at his best friends house, on the M5, in the car.
Guest list: ‘the kid who wouldn’t share at the park yesterday’.
Cake ideas: a Dorset apple cake in the shape of Team Rocket in a hot air balloon with Ash Ketchum…
If you had to retake your degree now, do you think you’d get a better grade than the first time round?
For me - absolutely not )but this is the sort of stuff I could do in my sleep in fourth year and that looks like gobbledygook now 😬)
Experiments in backcombing day two. Sunshine by the river ☀️
Ensconced with wind and good company until dinner time.
My daughter wanted to backcomb my hair this morning to play cave girls. Unexpected outcome was the floofiest ponytail ever. I must investigate this further over the Easter Holiday for maximal floofiness 👱🏼♀️
#offworkuntilfriday
Crying my eyes out watching Harry Clark Goes To Rome - when he sees the tomb of Carlo Acutis 😭
Definitely worth a watch. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Anyway what I’m really asking, if you have a similar watch, is for an actual adult to be my Garmin Friend 😂 🥺
connect.garmin.com/modern/profi...
Parenting 😅
(Gave her my old smartwatch)
Seven hours of work starting now …
Happy bank holiday to me 🥳
Great crested grebe or human teenagers? Just #wwt Slimbridge things
I’m not going to say my new watch is gaslighting me but these were taken like two hours apart 🤔
Husband put red food dye in the porridge this morning, then said that he’d cut himself when he was cooking. Eldest came down, sniffed all three bowls and choose the one that he thought smelled least of blood and ate it all.
Not quite the way April Fools was meant to go 🙃
First day of the Easter holidays and I’ve had no work and no children 🥳
(normal drunken posting will resume once I’ve ran the 10k next month)
Drifloon’d out at the tattoo studio!
Small issue - after getting a new piercing and still being bored, I really want a tattoo from there now 🙃
Taking my daughter to the Pokemon themed tattoo studio to get her ears pierced today.
Unfortunately, this has led to my toddler, who can’t say his r sound yet, telling everyone who’ll listen that he wants to get pissed later on 🙈
